All In the Family

First, here’s hoping Melania Trump recovers quickly from her surgery. Barron needs someone who seems at least halfway sane. The kid has a tough road ahead, no matter what. 

That said, the Trump family is really stepping out lately, while Donald grouses twenty times a day about Michael Cohen’s unfortunate visits from the Feds. He’ll probably even bitch to Li’l Kim about it in Singapore. That Deep State and its Fake News outlets have thrown more problems his way than Michael Avenatti has made TV appearances. 

Back to Melania: wearing a trenchcoat like Deputy Dawg for some reason, last week in the Rose Garden she  introduced her strange program for kids called “Be Best,” which actually sounds sort of illiterate. The First Lady will be tackling opioid abuse, social media problems, and mental health issues among children. Sounds okay, albeit a tad over-reaching and ironic, especially since her hubby is the Bully In Chief of Social Media and is also making a lot of kids afraid by his administration’s mania to deport their parents.

“Children deserve every opportunity to enjoy their innocence,” was Melania’s framing statement for Be Best. Evidently, Attorney General Jeff Sessions wasn’t on that wavelength because about an hour later he announced that his gang was going to grab illegal immigrants at the border and put their kids in some kind of government foster care, which doesn’t sound like a good place for them to be enjoying their innocence. 

This is totally Draconian, cruel beyond belief, conscienceless; it has no semblance to the open, free America that now seems so long ago and far away. It is yet another step on the road to Dystopia.  

Then, to start this week, Ivanka and Jared, the Fred and Ginger of Unbridled Greed and Nepotism, strutted their stuff in Jerusalem at what will be the new American embassy there. Wearing the family signature bright red tie (although of a rational length), Jared stepped up to the mic and rattled on about peace and freedom while about 50 miles away 56 Palestinian protesters were shot dead and more than 2500 wounded by Israeli border security forces. His daddy-in-law’s mouthpieces put all the blame on Hamas. 

No matter who was to blame, live ammo versus stones is unfair and unjust. You could even call it murder. 

To make their presence even more memorable, the Trump kids brought along an anti-Semitic rabbi and a racist preacher to back them up. Shame is not in their dictionary. There is something deeply and disturbingly creepy about this couple; they seem to be a matched Dorian Gray portrait, their bland and beauteous countenances concealing an abiding ugliness of entitlement, avarice, and ignorance. 

I guess Jared didn’t need a security clearance for his Jerusalem gig. Robert Mueller is reportedly totally on his case and it will be interesting to see Donald Trump’s reaction when he has to decide whether to throw Jared under that old bus or not. He probably will. That way he will have Ivanka all to himself.